Volkswagen turns off some employees’ email 30 minutes after their shifts end. Goldman Sachs is urging junior staff to take weekends off. BMW is planning new rules that will keep workers from being contacted after hours.
A Quezon City councilor has a suggestion for solving the teacher shortage nationwide as a result of the implementation of the K-12 program: Fill the job vacancies with qualified ex-overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) currently unemployed.
After “Oplan Hatid” we are now organizing “Oplan Trabaho” for the survivors of Supertyphoon “Yolanda.” Together we can help them get their lives back on track with dignity.—Junep Ocampo, volunteer organizer
Her last memory of her family was seeing them walk out the door of their house as water from the nearby ocean came rushing inside into their home.
After “Yolanda” brought unprecedented devastation to the town of Guiuan, officials are now looking at alternative livelihood for survivors of the Eastern Samar coastal town, a statement said.
Tens of thousands of desperately needed jobs are being created for survivors of Supertyphoon “Yolanda” by paying them to clear mountains of waste from ruined cities and farms.
In this city, many people with disabilities do not wander the streets and ask for alms from motorists.
The National Housing Authority (NHA) will increase from P5,000 to P10,000 the amount of assistance it will give to families whose homes were partially destroyed by supertyphoon “Yolanda” (Haiyan), according to Vice President Jejomar Binay.
With food and water reaching many survivors of Supertyphoon ‘‘Yolanda’’, it is time to implement programs that would help them help themselves.
The Parañaque government sees brighter employment prospects in the city in the following year, with a casino resort and business process outsourcing (BPO) companies expected to open in the next 12 months.
Workers at the provincial government here will forego the traditional Christmas party celebration this December after Gov. Adolph Edward Plaza decided to cancel it anew.
Four out of five Filipinos joining the middle class? President Benigno Aquino on Tuesday cited a study that made this projection to bolster his administration’s claim that the economy has gone on track to achieve inclusive growth, or the kind felt not just in the upper-crust but across segments of society.
Last week, I said here that “Cebu’s labor force is growing at 40,000 a month.” That was yearly, not monthly. How did I arrive at this figure?
